the women s semi finals take centre stage at wimbledon today. last year s beaten finalist ons jabeur of tunisia is taking on belarussia s aryna sabalenka for a place in saturday s final. the winner of this one will play mark ta vondrou ov in the final. after she convincingly beat elina svitolina in straight sets on centre court in the last hour. it s a first wimbledon final for the 24 year old czech, who becomes the first unseeded player to reach the women s final at wimbledon in the open era. later, alfie hewett and gordon reid are in men s wheelchair doubles semi finals. you can keep up to date with the tennis on bbc1 and 2 across the afternoon. our next story contains details which some viewers may find distressing. the everton midfielder dele alli says he was sexually abused as a child. in an emotional interview with former england footballer gary neville, he said he was molested at the age of six. he has also talked about how he started smoking at the age of seven and
hey yeah. as evan waits for his next day in court, his parents say they understand the conviction rate in russia as just about 100% so they don t have a lot of hope right now that he will be freed anytime soon, but they were given some relief when they got to physically see and speak with evan at his last pretrial detention hearing. it s even harder now to leave him there. then it was the first time trying not to think about anything. it s just very hard. that was part of a new interview evans family did with the wall street journal who employs evan, his parents say when they saw him. he appeared to be in good spirits and strong despite his tough circumstances. now just this week, u. s ambassador to russia than tracy was granted access to evan for the first time in nearly three months. we re also learning the kremlin may now be signaling they re open to the idea of exchanging evan for one of their own in a prisoner swap , but evan s parents and sister danielle, say right now
who is the pick for trump? don. likely temp scott. okay, all right. he s your friend. all of you, my, friends thank you so much for joining me. that s going to do it on this breaking news coverage with jonathan from washington continues next on this big news day. we begin the 4:00 hour with breaking news from the presidential campaign trail. florida governor ron desantis has officially dropped out of the republican presidential race, following his disappointing and distant second place finish in the iowa caucuses. desantis said, quote, we don t have a clear path to victory. instead, desantis said he will endorse former president donald trump. moments ago, the florida governor released this statement on x. we have prayed and elaborated on the way forward. but if there was anything i could do to produce a favorable outcome, and more campaign stops, more interviews, i would do it. but i can t ask our supporters to volunteer their time and donate their resources. we don
the tenth annual dodgers pride night ceremony took place an hour before the game. outside demonstratedders had signs calling, quote, anti-catholic hate. senior correspondent claude claudia claudia cowan with more. reporter: catholic protesters are counting last night s demonstration as a win. about 3400 fewer fanses attended dodgers pride night compared to last year, that according to the catholic league, one of many groups that called for the boycott of last night s game. though previously disinvited but then reinvited group of transand queer satirical nuns were honored with the award. the ceremony happened well before the team usually holds we game events. the dodgers said that was for safety reasons. relatively few fanses were in the stands to witness it. however, outside the stadium some 2,000 protesters blocked entrances and voiced their anger. [inaudible conversations] [speaking spanish] reporter: dodgers fans and people of faith said their issue wasn t with t
similar fable, the media, robert rocha. ever since that guy came down as escalator and beat hillary clinton like the rented mule she is, the media has treated him like hitler times 911. which is weird because unlike hillary, he did not kill anyone. [laughter] you know the hoaxes, russian collusion, the pee tape, the moon landing. according to the media, the walls were always closing in. we got him this time with tweeted hollywood networks almost every week. when the only things closing in were meatheads arteries. they stick their reputations on bringing him down and if america had to fall to bring down the donald, they were cool with it, too. from gets a rate and the media can t turn up the volume anymore. they already went to 11. they already blew out their speakers. to use a common biblical phrase, they already shot at their water. [laughter] that is biblical. leviticus. now, now they are finally getting what they want. it is hard to care. and they fail to see that they gav